Elohim Guide

[nealhunt]

Bringing up a zombie thread...

Wouldn't you almost always want to move the Palace to a foreign city as soon as convenient?

I'd pay 160 hammers in a decent production city solely to rid myself of the +20% war weariness from the Elohim palace. There are few that are just irresistible:

Lanun - +1 food on all water
Infernal - No war weariness, +1/1/1 from religious buildings, and +50% hammers. More than worth the loss of a mana for iron.
Sidar - bonuses to all specialists

The only ones I can think of that I might not do it with are Kuriotates, Chirp, Ljos and Malakim. Kuriotates have the same weariness penalty and the bonus health isn't all that important. The others have a +10% war weariness penalty. I'd probably still make the switch for those 4, but it would be a much lower priority.

 

[Micky Onimusha]

You can build another civ's palace. You lose your own Elohim Palace doing so, however you can simply rebuild it and still keep the other civ's palace. Consequently you can a 2nd palace, with the extra palace mana and reduced maintenance cost that entails. As far as I can tell, you can only have 2 palaces at once.

Is this still true? I never actually gave it a try, this is the first time I read anything about it. I was aware of the possibility of building other civ's palaces, but I didn't know you could get 2 palaces at once (and presumably you can get a Forbidden palace on top of that too).

I can't help but find it ironic that the Tolerant trait makes me want to play the "peaceful" Elohim very aggressively.

Also, since on the previous pages there was a bit of a leader vs. leader debate going, I always go for Logos. I like to bulb that early Prophet for a quick RoK (usually managing to get it in my Capital), although I'm starting to wonder if I should try an early Warrior Rush with Ethne sometime... as I said, Tolerant makes me rather intolerant

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Whenever I get mysticism early I start manually researching RoK immediately after. Tends to take a bit under 20 turns, shorter than it would take for Einion to build a pagan temple and run the priest it allows for 17 turns. GP goes to the shrine, which I'm not in that huge a hurry to complete since it takes a few turns for your religion to really spread. Basically if I build the temple and run the priest ASAP, I get the GP fast enough without philosophical.

 

[notque]

Won my first game using this strat for towers. thanks.

 

[Smakemupagus]

I can't help but find it ironic that the Tolerant trait makes me want to play the "peaceful" Elohim very aggressively.

Yeah, I hear ya. sanctuary also tends to make me go on a 30-turn killing spree while my homelands are nice and safe

 

[Dux_]

Sanctuary is really a life saver, on my current game, I got dow from Os-Gabella & she came with huge stacks of pyre zombies, which I wasn't ready to counter, so sanctuary saved my butt. Then revenge came sometime later with a bunch of vampires & lots of suicidal skeletons. If you get to conquer nice cities from nice civs, you're in for a lot of fun. Btw, do planar gates work as elohim?